A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a cours…

Anita Shreve
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A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones. ✨ Anita Shreve (1989). Eden Close: a novel, Harcourt
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A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones. ✨ Anita Shreve (1989). Eden Close: a novel, Harcourt

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